Search Results: Torture from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Los Angeles: DMT Publications / The University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Paperback. 130p., coated paperstock throughout with a few b&w period illustrations, softbound in gilt-decorated 10x7 inch wraps, mildest signs of any handling, a very good copy.

Sausalito: PoliPointPress, 2007. Paperback. xiv, 189p., personal inscription signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps.

Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002. Paperback. [xii], 76p., illustrated with a half-dozen period portraits &c and a modern line map, softbound, a paperback in 9x6 inch glossy decorated wraps. Alkaline paperstock, a nice item in perfectly sound, clean and unmarked condition. On Kosa Pan's return, a change in kingship brought wholesale torture and massacre, which he did not survive.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2019. Paperback. 143p., wraps, very good condition. First edition, precedes the Haymarket edition.

Berkeley: Human Rights Center, University of California, 2008. Paperback. ix, 124p., illustrated with a few documents in facsimile and two cover photos in color, softbound in 11x8.5 inch photodecorated wraps; a fine unblemished copy. The principal authors are Berkeley professors.

Paris: the Confederation des Etudiants Iraniens (Union Nationale), 1970. Handbill. Two original pieces: a text-leaf on a mildly acidic standard leaf bearing about 300 words, situation outlined and six currently incarcerated figures named, plus names of persons arrested earlier -plus- a light cardstock piece - on one side how to address one's written protest, the other side a precis of issues to mention. This card is in very good clean condition, while the 11x8.5 inch leaf bears a transverse fold-line, toning, and some typing errors. As issued, complete and legible in the French language.

Berkeley: MCLI - Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, 2004. Newsletter. Unpaginated, nested brochure consisting of three large leaves of cream alkaline paperstock, folded and printed to make twelve professionally printed pages, folded once more for mailing (bears an address sticker). Illustrated with a few vignette photos, a portrait, march, and one atrocity photo. A few small areas of handling smudge, else clean, and quite sound and unmarked. Covers Abu Ghraib, Vannunu, Lawrence Livermore weapons lab, Contra Costa school board take-aways. Enclosed find a printed envelope to enclose donations.

Stanford, CA: The Iran-America Documentation Group, 1978. Paperback. ii, 237p., map illustrations, drawing illustrations of torture techniques used, photos., wraps a tad sunned, pages slightly browned, else very good. Blurb by Noam Chomsky on back.

Moscow: Komitet za grazhdanskie prava, 2000. Pamphlet. 68p. staplebound pamphlet, very good. Pocket guide for victims of torture, by the Russian human rights activist.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005. Paperback. 224p., wraps, 6x9 inches, very good first paperback edition.

London: Institute for the Study of Terrorism, 1988. 64p., 5.5x8.5 inches; staplebound, in very good condition. Terrorism & Torture in Latin America.

London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. xii, 320p., scattered period illustrations in b&w, the hardbound first edition in not quite collectable condition, but a good reading copy: spine panel is sunned with the light blue of the covers faded to grey, covers look a little "handled," a copyright cancellation strip has bled through onto titlepage, lacks the dust jacket, text pages are entirely clean and unmarked, and textblock and casing together are square and sound. A useful book as is. Pietro spent two years in unsanitary Roman Catholic prisons where he could hear the screams of people on the rack. He was very tempted to suicide.

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. xvi, 159 pages, very good softcover; inscribed by the author. "Set against the dogmas of state regimes that torture, against the misapplications of technology to the destruction of human subjectivities, and against the use of spiritual traditions to suppress human poesis, this book speaks for poetry as the highest form of human consciousness, selfmaking, and imaginative possibility. Paul Bove sets out to remind society and intellectuals of the species' dependence upon those historical processes of self-making that result from and make possible such remarkable achievements as Dante's poetry, Bach's music, and the very being of humanity as a historical species that has the right to imagine and create its own futures...

Venice: Stamperia di Venezia editrice, 1966. Paperback. 143, xxvii [documents]p., numerous site and instrument photos plus floorplans &c; an upright softbound in 8.5x4.5 inch photo-decorated glossy wraps. A bit edgeworn with light corner-creasing, free of any marks within, a good copy.

Chicago :: San Francisco :: New York: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, [c198-?]. Pamphlet. [4p]., 7x8 inch folio; photo., in very good condition.

Hanau/M: Muller & Kiepenheuer, 1969. Hardcover. Respectively xv + [i], 562, 455p., two volumes of matching design: gray buckram boards spine-titled and -ruled gilt on maroon printblock labels, and enclosed in glossy pictorial dust jackets. The casebound books have an eccentric ownership stamp inside rear covers, else are unmarked, clean and sound, really nearly immaculate, while djs are edgeworn with short rears. Very good set. Text in German.

New York / Washington DC: Americas Watch Committee, 1988. Paperback. i, 83p., plus appended material. Illustrated with two line maps on a single page, set as a frontispiece. Softbound in 9x6 inch journal wraps (but has a "paperback" ISBN, as here), covers somewhat worn and rubbed. Else sound, and entirely clean and unmarked.

Barcelona: Colectivo Antitortura, 1979. 12.25x15.25 inches, single sheet, printed both sides, some yellowing along a horizontal fold. Text in Spanish. OCLC lists two holdings in Barcelona. Single issue of the anti-torture publication, with discussion of the torture of local activists.

London: Catholic Institute for International Relations :: Human Rights Forum (British Council of Churches) :: International Commission of Jurists, 1982. Pamphlet. 43p., [iii], 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound wraps;.

Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill, 1945. Pamphlet. 34p., stapled skyblue wraps, 5x7.5 inches, pages faintly toned, hint of dust-soil to covers plus an inked ownership to upper left, sound copy else clean and unmarked. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 24. Argues against mistreatment of patients at mental institutions.